The steaming pile of suck that was The Deep End has not deterred producers from trying to bring our little slice of heaven to television.
Per Deadline Hollywood:
Gabriel Macht has closed a deal to star opposite Patrick J. Adams in USA Network’s pilot A Legal Mind. The pilot centers on Mike Ross (Adams), a brilliant but unmotivated college student who gets recruited by a Harvey Specter (Macht), a lawyer at top Manhattan corporate law firm despite not having a law degree. He has to use his book and street smarts and hustling skills to keep the charade. The project has a two-male-lead setup in the vein of the network’s series White Collar. ICM-repped Macht will next be seen in Ed Zwick’s Love and Other Drugs.
Among Macht’s 28 IMDB credits is a single-episode apperance on Beverly Hills 90210 and a bunch of other stuff we’ve never seen. Adams has a similarly unrecognizable opus (at least to us).
We’ve also Quick Shucked developments on a couple of other pending legal dramas: Alfred Molina joined the cast of Law & Order: LA, joining Skeet Ulrich; and NBC is working on “Harry’s Law,” starring Nate Corddry and Kathy Bates.
Update: We forgot to mention the rework of The Firm.
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That is one of the most implausible plots I've heard of in awhile. If a top law firm wanted a bright new star, wouldn't they pick someone with an actual law degree who could pass the bar?
We bet the first episode will include this guy coming up with some brilliant solution to the lawyer's problem and that ability to think "outside the box" will make him indispensable. Their use of pronouns was pretty confusing. Is the brilliant biglaw guy not a lawyer or does that guy not know that the college student isn't a lawyer? Duping biglaw into think you're a lawyer has been done before in reality (we recall some paralegal doing something in Connecticut not too long ago). Anyway, The Deep End has set the bar pretty low already.